People Break (Just Like Us)

from People Break / Demos by Mahlon Sweet Field

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It must be love or something worse

Written and mostly recorded in about an hour one Friday night before Costelloe's. Backing vocals added by Al Sheahan and Fin Chambers about four in the morning after Costelloe's. Drums and additional guitar added by Doug Murray and Kieran Calvert the following day.

lyrics

People break just like us
Little clay flower pots
And the sky won’t shut up
It’s full of useless rain

I've got rust on my hands
Hid my heart in the sand
If it hurts we’ll be damned and die
It must be love or something worse

I can comfort you when you’re down
You can comfort me when i am

Always blue all the time
Little things make us cry
And my head’s just like
A time bomb about to blow
Don’t let it show

I can comfort you when you’re down
You can comfort me when i am

People break just like us
Little clay flower pots
And the sky won’t shut up
It’s full of useless rain

I can comfort you when you’re down
You can comfort me when i am

Copyright 2000 Barra Ó Tuathail

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from People Break / Demos, track released December 8, 2010
Written and recorded by Barra Ó Tuathail

Vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, drum machine, shakers, vodka and miscellany by Barra Ó Tuathail
Electric guitars by Kieran Calvert
Drums by Doug Murray
Backing Vocals by Al Sheahan and Fin Chambers

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